SV: [AT] O/T one horse sleighs

[Kessen Mattias (Road SE)]

I have ridden one. When here in Dalarna at Magdalenas parents Santa Claus usually comes with a horse sleigh. We'll se about tonight (yes christmas eve' is the day for santa to come in Sweden) since we at last got one inch of snow, not that I miss the almost two feet we had at home a month ago.
 
Anyway
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 
/Mattias

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	Från: Cecil E Monson [mailto:cmonson at hvc.rr.com] 
	Skickat: fr 2004-12-24 01:13 
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	        I was listening to Christmas music last night and wondered how
	many of the people on this List have ever owned, ridden in, or driven a
	horse hooked up to a one horse sleigh?  I have and enjoyed it a lot.
	We had a one horse cutter on the farm when I was a kid and it didn't
	take us long to figure out how to harness up one of the smaller horses
	and hook him up to the cutter. If you are not familiar with the term
	"cutter" it is a nice light one horse sleigh with thin runners, a nice
	padded seat and room for two people - maybe three if you squeezed in.
	
	        My father, who had horses, used it to deliver the mail on our
	country rural mail route in the dead of winter when our mailman, who
	didn't have horses, could not do it with his Ford model T or the A.
	When we moved to the larger farm in the late 1930s the cutter went
	along with us but by then the roads were being plowed in the winter
	and my father never had to go out on the route again. So, the sleigh
	sat out in the orchard until we were old enough to harness one of
	the horses and use it. The cutter had a foot warmer which was a little
	metal box that held charcoal and had a vent that could be opened or
	closed to adjust the heat. I doubt it worked very well or very long
	at one time as it was kinda small. My father also had a buffalo robe
	made into a heavy winter coat but it was too heavy for us and it
	eventually went the way of all things. If I remember right, my mother
	didn't think much of it. It smelled like the buffalo was still in it
	to me.
	
	        We tried different horses on the cutter and it worked out
	pretty well until we tried hooking it up to one of the broncos my
	grandfather had on his farm. He bought these wild things from a ranch
	in northwestern Montana and thought he could train them to do light
	work on the farm. He was unsuccessful. We failed too when we tried to
	hook up one of them to the cutter as he took off before we were ready
	and even though I was in the seat, I didn't stay there long. The end
	of the cutter came when we hit some farm machinery parked in back of
	the chicken house but it was OK right up to that point. Too bad the
	bronco didn't work out. He was a really fast horse...
	
	Cecil
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	Cecil E Monson
	Lucille Hand-Monson
	Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
	
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